/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

I'm so fed up of tracers getting fucking money and praise to trace.
A relative of mine is praised and paid by my family for their "amazing art" but I can tell from a mile away their stuff is traced.
Most artists here too even have art exhibitions of portraits of people which are exactly some photograph but traced with pencil.
Even an app can do that ffs.

I wish I could find it in me to be a cunt too and trace things and make a living out of it like these people but the guilt and weight on my consciousness is too much.

sure you still need the skill of colouring but that's nothing compared to a full piece made by yourself.

and even things like, say, tracing some parts but then drastically adding and changing things... I can kind of understand and accept that, but tracing detail by detail all the same, even the shadows, and claiming it all as your own? Fuck, man.